This is the sec­ond Solar Eclipse of the year. Here is what I wrote about this in my Overview for 2011:

The Solar Eclipse of June 1 her­alds a new series of lessons for us since it occurs in Gem­i­ni. The Lunar nodes are mov­ing from Cancer/Capricorn to Gemini/Sagittarius. Yes, that’s right, these points in space move “back­wards” through the Zodi­ac. They are estab­lished by two inter­sect­ing “spheres” formed from the orbital paths of the Earth around the Sun, and the Moon around the Earth. Where those two orbits inter­sect is the time, every 6 months, where the Sun, Moon and Earth line up with one anoth­er. This is what allows for there to be the phe­nom­e­non of the Moon’s shad­ow pass­ing across the Earth (Solar Eclipse), or the shad­ow of the Earth pass­ing across the Moon (Lunar Eclipse).

The June 1 Gem­i­ni Solar Eclipse is say­ing that in order to use this new release of ener­gy that comes at a New Moon, you will first have to go back and repair, cor­rect or fin­ish some aspect of your think­ing. Gem­i­ni rules intel­li­gence, but true intel­li­gence is found­ed upon crit­i­cal self-aware­ness. Just hav­ing the “right” answer does not make you spir­i­tu­al­ly intel­li­gent; the real issue is are you ask­ing the right question?

At a “nor­mal” New Moon you get a release of new mean­ing, a new dis­pen­sa­tion of ener­gy, to inspire and inform the next step in your con­tin­u­ing unfold­ment of spir­i­tu­al poten­tial. But dur­ing the Eclipse New Moon a shad­ow (the past) falls upon you. There is a need to work out some old karmic les­son before you can move for­ward. The shad­ow rep­re­sents some­thing hid­den; or a blind spot in your aware­ness that obscures the mes­sage of the New Moon.

One of the prin­ci­ple gifts of Gem­i­ni is in the adapt­abil­i­ty of your mind; you pos­sess a unique fac­ul­ty that allows, even encour­ages you to con­sid­er alter­nate points of view or per­spec­tives. But even so you devel­op pat­terns or habits of obser­va­tion, assess­ment and deter­mi­na­tion. You encounter an event, phe­nom­e­na or indi­vid­ual and “clas­si­fy and type” it or them. If this is done too often with­out being sub­ject to self-reex­am­i­na­tion, blind spots will devel­op. You will fail to see what is real­ly before you. You get stuck in your more lim­it­ed or biased point of view and errors will be made…You need a re-boot!

Think of the Eclipse as an oppor­tu­ni­ty to do just that. It is a very visu­al reminder that although you believe that you have per­ceived some­thing “tru­ly”, you have also, inevitably, fall­en into error because your per­cep­tions are limited…you have a “blind spot”.

You need to shift your per­spec­tive, chal­lenge your assump­tions and shine the light of your mind from anoth­er angle. Remem­ber, your point of view is like a very bright light illu­mi­nat­ing the mat­ter before you while also cre­at­ing a very strong shad­ow, (what you do not per­ceive). You need to move your mind/light to anoth­er angle so as to reduce the shadow.

Think of this New Moon as a new begin­ning in your way of observ­ing the world around you. Chal­lenge your­self to look at your life from a dif­fer­ent or alter­nate set of assump­tions. See what you might have been miss­ing; cel­e­brate some new dis­cov­ery or point of aware­ness. Ask a ques­tion; ask again, but from anoth­er point of view. And repeat.

Remem­ber, always approach your world with wonder…question every­thing! You will be amazed; you will be amazing.